Nuclear Weapons

The USA dropped 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima, and at Nagasaki. The US used the Atomic bomb to weaken the Japanese military strength as the Japanese still had an army about 5 million strong, but after the strikes the Japanese surrendered unconditionally.

The US dropped the bombs in preperation of the proposed invasion of the Japanese mainland. This opertion never happened. The US high command wanted to defeat Japan at the minimum cost of lives as the Japanese army was still strong.

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/tenw/nuke_war.htm

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what questions about nuclear weapons did the Cuban missile crisis raise in Canada's minds? why did these questions divide Canadians?

In a senton bomb, you simply do a 270 degrees forward flip and land on your opponent with your back. In a swanton bomb (high-angle senton bomb), you have to keep your body, hands and legs straight as you do the flip.

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Only the few thousand kilograms that is in the core already. The reactor core is manufactured by one of the "big" suppliers of nuclear materials. All the fuel is welded inside tubes or plates. The tough metal covering is called cladding, and clad fuel makes up a fuel element. The fuel elements are assembled in what are called fuel bundles, and the fuel bundles are arranged in the core with the control rods and some monitoring ports included. Then the whole thing is sealed inside the pressure vessel with big bolts and nuts, and with a welded seam. With all the fuel in the core, the submarine is off on its rounds. When the core reaches the end of its usable life, refueling is scheduled. The boat enters a properly equiped yard, goes into drydock, and has a hole cut in the hull over the pressure vessel. The lid of the pressure vessel is opened and lifted, and the fuel bundles removed and replaced. Then it's all put back together. With the system tested and accepted by the Navy, the boat returns to service. There is no "gas tank" or "spare fuel" aboard in this light. There is diesel fuel for the emergency diesel generator system aboard, but that's it. The actual range of the boat is limited by the amount of provisions that can be stored aboard. Fuel for energy and the making of drinking water is not a problem. There are some 10 years of life (give or take) built into the core. Prepare to dive.

Formally he announced a "quarantine" of Cuba. This was a "polite" way of saying blockade without formally saying blockade. If he had formally declared a blockade of Cuba, he would also be implicitly declaring war on Cuba and indirectly with its ally the USSR. He did not want to declare war on the USSR, so he played games with words. The USSR could have easily called his bluff and either ran the "quarantine" or declared that "your quarantine is really a blockade, which is an act of war, we are now at war." However they did not, their ships turned around and the missiles were removed. (secretly in exchange for our removing Jupiter and Thor missiles from Turkey that were already obsolete and on our schedule for removal anyway even without the threat of missiles in Cuba.)

No, however in the 50s & 60s we tested nukes in Nevada.

The fallout from these above ground tests did not miss a single state of the lower 48 as well as entering parts of both Canada and Mexico. See the maps in the book "Under the Cloud".

The effects of even the largest nuclear devices and the most virulent and persistent chemical weapons are containable and finite. That is, with relatively simple efforts, the effects of the crisis can be managed and the casualty rates will fall at a predictable rate with time after the weapon is used.

Biological weapons attacks are not manageable in this way. Bio-weapons attacks can cause long-term, unmanageable outbreaks, with casualty rates growing exponentially or by orders of magnitude as time passes from the attack. The resulting death rates from an attack are potentially so high that a properly designed weapon, properly deployed, could produce casualty rates so staggeringly high that it could kill a substantial proportion of the global population, and remain a persistent high level cause of death for centuries to follow.

To put it in perspective, the Hiroshima bomb killed between 90,000 and 166,000 people, most of whom died instantly or within a few hours or days of the attack; long term casualties from cancer due to radiation exposure were less than 600.

In WW1 (the only major war where chemical weapons were used), fewer than 90,000 men were killed by poison gas throughout the entire course of the war. This amounts to less than 3% of battlefield casualties.

Spanish influenza on the other, a naturally occurring and non-weaponized disease, killed an incredible 50 million people in (3% of the global population at the time and more than 3 times the entire casualty number of WW1) in less than a year and sickened another 500 million (1/3 of the global population at the time- a number so massive that, to put in perspective, is nearly double the current population of the United States).

Smallpox, which was eradicated in 1979, killed between 300-500 million people world-wide in the 20th Century alone (a number so astoundingly, catastrophically high that the only way to put it in perspective is to say that if you added every death from war, genocide, natural disasters, homicide and tobacco use in the entire 20th century the number wold be approximately 200 million. An even better frame of reference is that approximately 510 million people died worldwide in the entire decade of the 1990's from ALL CAUSES COMBINED). It is fair to say, in fact, that previous to 1979 smallpox was the leading cause of death in all of human history.

That, in the end, is why bio-weapons are so worrisome. You're talking about unleashing scourges on the population of the planet that cannot be controlled, are utterly devastating, and can produce casualty numbers that stagger the imagination.

During World War 2, we had invented Nuclear arms. The main point was to threaten people who were trying to kill us. We only had two atomic bombs when we threatened Japan, but they did not know that so, after we bombed Hiroshima, they did not know if we had one more left or a thousand. Now that Iran is in the process of making a nuclear bomb, we are all scared that they could use it in a horrifying way. In the Cold War, we did not fight any battles, but we used our nuclear weapons to threaten Russia. As of today, we have nuclear arms, for defense, and we are the only ones who have used a nuclear weapon on Another Country.

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For warhead blast damage, the initial blast radius is dependent on the warhead yield (kilotons or megatons), the higher the yield resulting in a wider range of destruction. The calculation even for the initial Trinity bomb test was a rough one, estimated to be about 22 kilotons.

The Radius (R) of the blast depends on 3 primary factors in the equation first used to calculate the yield of the Trinity test by- Energy released (E), Time after detonation (how fast the explosion has expanded in a certain amount of time) (T), and the Density of the air where the explosion takes place (P).

However, Alpha radiation contamination from the blast fallout can circle the globe driven by the weather. For this reason, the main nuclear powers in 1963 (U.S., UK and the USSR) signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, which banned all above ground testing when it was found that fallout from air and ground testing up to that resulted in contamination of food supplies (high levels of Strontium 90 were detected in pasteurized milk, e.g.).

As for a missile's tactical range, it depends on the range of the delivery vehicle itself. Tactical nuclear weapons typically have a range in the hundreds of miles (Tomahawk TLAM-N or ALCM-N, e.g.) while short range weapons are typically under 100 miles. Strategic weapons (ballistic missiles) typically range in the 4,000-8,000 mile range. Most actual weapons range limits are classified for obvious reasons (Peacekeeper range is "greater than 6k miles, e.g.), but its widely known that most ballistic missiles have global target range.

It's important to remember also that ICBM's take the shortest route to the target, and that's not horizontally across the globe as some games and movies have mistakenly shown. Targeting is typically over the North Pole (U.S. and Russia) or from a southern point to a northern one and back down to the target. This is because it's a shorter range of flight time this way, due to the circumference of the Earth being shorter at higher latitudes.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the focus was on Strategic Nukes that had a flight time of less than 30 minutes to Washington, and about 5min to Florida. What was not known at the time and only learned at a much later date was that the Soviet Union had also installed Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Cuba. Had the U.S. decided to invade, the result would've been disaster as those weapons were operational and had not been picked up by the U-2 surveillance.

No, it is perfectly legal as long as it is used on your own property.

Though Diesel-Electric boats are in fact much quieter on the battery than Nuclear Powered boats (the first thing taught in Sonar school), even with today's battery technology, DE submarines are limited in range, equipment, speed, maneuverability, and weapons they can carry. This in effect limits their overall usage as a weapons/intelligence/covert insertion/Naval escort platform.

In the early '60's, there was a big debate over the cost of nuclear powered boats vs. conventional DE submarines, as the success of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) led the Navy to push for more of its type. A tactical test pitted one NP boat against several DE submarines - in simulated attacks, all DE boats were discovered and sunk by the NP submarine. This is what led to the Navy's current doctrine of using only nuclear powered boats.

One of the largest drawbacks to DE technology today is the major advancements in Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) technology, which has developed considerably over the years since WWII. Though the biggest threat to any submarine is still a submarine, patrol aircraft (fixed-wing and rotor) use sophisticated sonobuoys and dipping sonars that can direct surface and other air assets to the area to track and destroy a submarine. In such cases, the ability to go deep and rapidly egress the area is paramount, and the speeds/depths of modern NP submarines allows them to do that, where DE submarine technology is limited in that regard.

everybody that i know uses the harrier strike,chopper gunner and the nuke

Or another way is to first get harrier... call on a good spot so you get a few kills with the airstike...then wait until that goes away(don't call in the pavelow right after it goes away wait a few moments so they all come back outside if they were camping indoors)...then call in a pave low and when the time comes youll get your nuke...this only works if people don't shoot it down and if your on the right map...i know for a fact that wasteland is the number 1 map for getting nukes in modes like team deathmatch but rundown is the number 1 places to get them for domination.

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In 1957, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was selected to develop the nuclear warhead for the UGM-27 Polaris SLBM.

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Communist China already had that technology. Refined and advanced technologies are always being swapped, stolen, or bribed by the covert/espionage people. For example, the USSR (today called Russia) received their first successful 4 engined bomber from the US; they stole it when one of the US B-29s landed in Russia from a bombing raid over Japan in WWII. Instead of returning it, they dissembled it bolt by bolt, and copied it bolt by bolt (under Stalin's orders), then they had their brand new B-29 Russian (Soviet) version. Same with the atom bomb; a US couple (husband and wife) sold/gave the US A-Bomb secrets to the Soviets (Russians) and the Soviets successfully exploded their first nuclear device in 1949. The couple that gave the secrets to the Soviets were executed in the US on or about 1955.

The first US tanks were copies of the British MK series and the French Renault model 1917. The very first German tank was a captured British tank, repainted with German markings and sent back across the lines to attack their original owners.

The US 1903 Springfield bolt action rifle that was supposedly all US designed and made had to pay Mauser for patent infringement fines.

The US Civil War Confederate iron-clad, the CSA Merrimac (or CSA Virginia) was a rebuilt CAPTURED US (Union) vessel.

yes, they are radiation tolerant

Sorry, but that information is classified.